Subject: Good fiddle solo for a wedding From: Marion Date: 02 Mar 01 - 08:19 AM OK, so my mother's getting married and wants me to do a fiddle thing during the signing of the register. Any suggestions? The only slow airs I know are laments and not really appropriate. Neither my mother or her boyfriend are specifically into Scottish/Irish music, so I want something with general appeal. Maybe a nice waltz, or something like Ash Grove, or an old hymn? A short classical piece could do too if it weren't too hard. Do you think Ashokan Farewell is too melancholy for a wedding? Thanks, Marion |
Subject: RE: Good fiddle solo for a wedding From: GUEST,Matt_R Date: 02 Mar 01 - 08:47 AM I've played Mna na hEireann (The Woman of Ireland) on fiddle...and on several occasions, some female friends said they'd like it played at their wedding. |
Subject: RE: Good fiddle solo for a wedding From: Jon Freeman Date: 02 Mar 01 - 09:16 AM I once wrote a waltz for 2 friends which I had hoped to be played at their wedding. It's not very good but here it is. Jon |
Subject: RE: Good fiddle solo for a wedding From: GUEST,Matt_R Date: 02 Mar 01 - 09:19 AM Thank to JenEllen, I have the John McCusker tunebook..he has some VERY VERY good tunes in there that he wrote for weddings. If you like, I can send you some. They really are good! |
Subject: RE: Good fiddle solo for a wedding From: bill\sables Date: 02 Mar 01 - 09:28 AM There is an Irish jig called "Haste to the Wedding" |
Subject: RE: Good fiddle solo for a wedding From: GUEST,Les B Date: 02 Mar 01 - 02:03 PM More appropriate for grooms is "The Girl I Left Behind Me"! |
Subject: RE: Good fiddle solo for a wedding From: Bernard Date: 02 Mar 01 - 02:35 PM How about Bach's Cantata 147, also known as 'Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring'? I often play it on the organ during the signing of the register - or maybe 'Flocks in Pastures Green Abiding', also by Bach... PM me with your email address if you need the dots. |
Subject: RE: Good fiddle solo for a wedding From: GUEST,Phil Cooper Date: 02 Mar 01 - 02:42 PM Banks of the Bann, which made it to the hymnals as Be thou my vision so you can impress the folkies and the church people at the same time. |
Subject: RE: Good fiddle solo for a wedding From: bflat Date: 02 Mar 01 - 02:55 PM Marion, I think Ashokan Farewell would be wonderful!! It has a beautiful lilt. By all means play that. Ellen
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Subject: RE: Good fiddle solo for a wedding From: Clinton Hammond Date: 02 Mar 01 - 03:09 PM Ummm... fire up Napster and look for a lovely tune by Rawlins Cross called The Wedding Gift!!! Or email/PM me and we'll see about me sending the MP3 to ya... sword4hire@home.com ;-) |
Subject: RE: Good fiddle solo for a wedding From: Jim Krause Date: 02 Mar 01 - 03:53 PM Marion, No one has suggested the obvious piece, The Lover's Waltz by Jay Ungar. It isn't overdone, or hackneyed, and it is simply beautiful. It isn't too hard, either. Jim |
Subject: RE: Good fiddle solo From: Clinton Hammond Date: 02 Mar 01 - 03:55 PM Jim... I though my suggestion -was- the obvious one! LOL!! |
Subject: RE: Good fiddle solo for a wedding From: Kelticgrasshopper Date: 02 Mar 01 - 05:57 PM "..If ever you were mine"...Natalie macMaster does a beautiful version of this one |
Subject: RE: Good fiddle solo for a wedding From: Marion Date: 05 Mar 01 - 09:35 AM Thank you all. As it turns out, I found a piece I want to play by looking through my old piano stuff - Meditation from Thais by Massanet. Of course I can learn the violin in two months. Marion |
Subject: RE: Good fiddle solo for a wedding From: Murray MacLeod Date: 05 Mar 01 - 10:37 AM This is a fascinating thread. We are playing a wedding on April ist, and we were going to do O'Carolan tunes exclusively, but I shalll rethink that one in view of what I read here. For one tune only, I would suggest O'Carolan's "Si Bheag and Si Mhor". Hey Matt, would you forward me these John McCusker tunes if I ask nicely and pay the mailing ? Also the Woman of Ireland. I am serious. And I promise I won't even tell you who John McCusker used to room with ........ Murray |
Subject: RE: Good fiddle solo for a wedding From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock Date: 05 Mar 01 - 11:17 AM My friends had "Give me your hand" played, and it was lovely. Unfortunately it means that when my turn comes I shall have to think of something different. |
Subject: RE: Good fiddle solo for a wedding From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock Date: 05 Mar 01 - 11:19 AM I've just decided on Burns' (or was it O'Carolan's tune?) "Cock up your Beaver". Nice. |
Subject: RE: Good fiddle solo for a wedding From: Murray MacLeod Date: 05 Mar 01 - 11:22 AM For the benefit of all US Mudcatters, "Cock up your Beaver" is an admonition to set your top-hat at a jaunty angle. Pheeww ........... Murray |
Subject: RE: Good fiddle solo for a wedding From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock Date: 05 Mar 01 - 11:24 AM And wouldn't it look nice on the order of service! |
Subject: RE: Good fiddle solo for a wedding From: GUEST,Carol's Friend Don Date: 05 Mar 01 - 11:55 AM Try "Rain in the Desert" by Liz Donalson, or "Two Rivers" by one-of-those-Ungers. |
Subject: RE: Good fiddle solo for a wedding From: jeepman (inactive) Date: 05 Mar 01 - 01:21 PM Try "A Maidens Prayer". Jeepman |
Subject: RE: Good fiddle solo for a wedding From: Liz the Squeak Date: 05 Mar 01 - 06:30 PM Sorry the day I was married? My mother swears blind that they had fight the good fight.... We had a fiddler lead us from the church to the reception, a 20 min walk through the main shopping street of the town.... He just kept playing morris tunes and Haste to the Wedding. LTS |
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